Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1926, Page 1

—e ———————————— WEATHER (U. S. Weather Bureau Forscast.) Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, prob. ably light showers. Temperature—Highest, vesterday: lowest, 53, at 6 Full report on page 9. 74, at 2 p.m. a.m. tod: Closing N. Y. Stocks and B @ onds, Page 30 ¢ T WITH SUNDAY MORNI NG EDITION ening Sfar. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 98,211 No. 30,086. post office, Wa intered as second clasq matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, . MERTON DECLARES HE KNEW HIS CLAIM WAS LEGALLY WEAK Says Transfer of Stock Just Before War Declaration Was Made Orally. DENIES HE SOUGHT AID OF “CLEVER POLITICIAN”| {liam M. Butler, chairman of the Re- publican national committee, for the Trial of Daugherty and Miller Marked by Many Tilts Between Counsel. Br the Acseociated Prese. NEW YORK. September 14.— YWhen Richard Merton, German in dustrialist, first arrived in America in April. 1821, to attempt to recover the assets of the American Metals Co.. he knew his legal claim was weak. He testified to this today at the trial of former Attorney General Farry M. Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custo dian, charged with conspiracy to de-| fraud the Government | His legal claim was not strong. he| felt. because the transfer of the stock 10 the Societe Suisse, a few days be fore America entered the World War | was oral. i In answer to a question by United | States Attorney Buckner concerning | the late John T. King, former Re-| publican national committeeman | from Connecticut, he said he did not come here with the idea of finding 2 clever politician.” Mr. King was also indicted but died shortly after-| ward Morton said that he pictured Amer- | as a nation much different from | France or others of the| allies. T did not think America ex aetly friendly,” he said, “but I cer-| tainly knew they would be more de ica England. | By the Associated Press. NINE STATES HOLD PRIMARIES TODAY, WITH THREE MAIN ISSUES {Klan, Dry L;w and World Court Are Principal Questions Raised by Candi- dates for Nominations. By the Associated Preas. |is opposed in Washington by six can- Prohibitlon and American adhesion | didates for the Republican senatorial to the World Court figured promi- |nomination. The subject of proh nently again today among issues be- it‘lI\:“nan“M! Il‘n’en prominent during fore voters of Statsa TnG o | the campaign. esrers forlSinte anaiBeiers ard | reputed to have the support of the earers for State and Federal offices. | ity Klux Klan, is opposed for the The campaign of Washington Cook, | Republican nomination by the forces member of the governor's council in |of Ciarence C. Hamlin,” Republican Massachusetts, against Senator Wil- | national committeeman, Who heads the anti-Klan wing. National issues played no part in the campaign, which was one of personalities. In South Carolina a run-off primary | found Senator Ellison D. Smith con- testing for the Democratic nomina- tion with Col. Edgar A. Brown, peaker of the State house of repre sentative, Neither received a ma- jority in the original primary Col, [ Brown has attacked Senator ‘Smith's vote in tavor of American adh nce |to the Wortd Court In Vermont Senator Porter H. Dale hade no opposition for the Republican nomination, but the voters were natorial nomination, has fea- tured advocacy of modification of the Volsiead act. Former Senator David 1. Walsh has no opposition for the Democratic nomination. In Louisiana Senator Broussard, Democrat, was opposed for renomi- nation by Jared Y. Saunders, former governor and a dry Prohibition likewise features the Maryland Republican primary, where Senator O. E. Weller is opposed by Representative John Philip Hill, who | 1 0 3 is prominent among wet forces in |choosing candidates for State offices the House. Representative Millard [and for members of the National Tydings has no’ opposition for the | House of Representativ PAmoGatiE In New York the wet and dry ques- senatorial nomination. e = S Senator Wesley (Contniued on Page 4, Column 2.) LOCARN TRETES TALIMS S party [TALIANS SUSPECT |Recent Attack on Duce Laid to Activities of Interna- tional Group. Ratifications of Security Pacts Deposited With League Secretariat. By the Ascociated Press YOME. September 14.—The author. | ities today were more firmly con GENEVA, September 14.—The Lo carno treaties of security and arbi cent than the others. Although he felt his case to be| weak, Merton said he also felt that America had no desire to seize private | property or to impound it without | just and sufficient cause. { Had Two Ideas. i said Wis mind was “split” One was that the claim | showing that This was | Merton by two ideas. could he collected by the oral transfer was legal. an ownership claim. The other idea | was to show that although the | Metallgesellschaft owned shares of the ctock of the Societe Suisse, that com- ! pany was indebted to the Societe | Suisse for the amount of the shares of the American Metal Co.. which had heen offered as a guaranty. The guaranty was made to prevent the Soclete Suisse and its adjunct institu- | the Swiss Rank, from going into bankruptey. This was a debt claim. | Tn any case, Merton sald, it was not | his intention to reveal the relation of | the Metallgesellschaft until necessary. | He sald he felt that a revelation of this relation would prejudice his claims. After convergations with G. R Williams, first assistant to Miller. who | was then Alien Property Custodian. Merton said he learned that the claim would be made on the ownership basis and that it eventually was made and paid on this basis. Questions Merton's Authorization. TUnder _redirect examination At forney Buckner questioned Merton about his authorization as agent for the Societe Sufe Pour Valeurs de| Metaux, for which Merton collected nearly $7.000,000 for American Metals Co. shares which had been seized by the Government under the trading. with-the-enemy act The Government charges that $441. 000 which Merton said he paid as “commission” tn King, who died short Iv after he was Indicted with Daugher- ty and Miller, to procure a speedy response was shared with him by Daugherty and Miller. The present trial is based on a superseding in dictment naming only Daugherty and Miller. Many Legal Tilts. | Buckner's first question brought defense attorneys to their feet tn make objections. Legal tilt followad ! legal tilt for half an hour with vari- ous degre: of cuccess Buckner then attempted to duce as Government exhibits letters written by Merton 1o John Fost Dulles, New York attorney. and Leo- | pold Dubois, president of the Swiss Bank and a director of the Societe Suisse. These lotters were written in November, 1920, Waving Merton's letter to Dulles, Ruckner described it in a question he asked Merton, as proof of the fact that the idea of the transfer of the shares of the Ameri- can Metals Co. orizinated in the reply Dulles made in 1820. The transfer erton had_testified previously was made tn 1917 Max Stever. counsel for Daugherty jumped his feet and heatedly de- Clared that “justice cannor be shown either defendant with such acting as Ruckner indulging in. He then ed that the jury he discharsed 1 think.” Judge Mack said. “that you attach too much importance t Mr uckner's histrionie ability The attornevs then continued their clash over legality of these ex- hibite ' The rest of the morning session was occupied by Ruckner in an effort to establish by Merton’s testimony that there was not in the claim submitted to the Government a written obliga tion whereby the Metall Bank and the Metallgesellschaft became guarantors of the stock of the Sociste Suisse prior to the war. GEN. LUDENDORFF WEDS. German Notable Marries Woman Who Figured in Divorce Case. MUNICH. September 14 () Erich Ludendorff, who was quarter master general of the German perial army in the World War married at noon today to Frau Dr. Mathilde ven Kemnitz. The bride who was mentioned by the first Fra Ludendorff in the divorce proceedings in July, is a specialist on nervous dis- | eases. | The marriage ceremony. which was | strictly private, was performed by the Jocal registrar at the bride’'s home at Tutzing, on Starnberg Lake. Luden- dorff is 61 years old intro- | is Gen. im E | League | where at [ eign policy, and made special refer- | remarked, | clanses tration became officially operative to-| vinced than ever that Gino Lucetti's day when the ratifications of all the|attempt on the life of Premier Mus- signatories were deposited with the ! solini last Saturday was the outcome ecretariat of the League of Nations.|of a wide plot backed by Communists The representatives of the six in-|and anarchists, both in Italy and terested nations assembled in the |abroad. office of Sir Eric Drummond. the | Relatively few actual arrests have secretary general, and at-|been made, since concrete informa tached their signatures to a protocol | tion is lacking. but about 350 per: afrming the deposit and registration | sons in all have been detained for of the treaties. Afterward rnn;:ra(u-"IU“NI""'“(» lations were exchanged. Lucetti still denies that there was - | a conspiracy, asserting that the homb. ose taking part in the ceremony | conspiracy. assertin b Lt ain. Great | INg was prompted by his personal po- Sir Austen Chamberlain, Great | - e litical faith, but the police say his Foreign Minister Briand. | 55,0 cannot be helieved in view of Foreign Minister Stresemann. | the ‘many indications that his inten- Signor oia. Ttaly: H. De | tions were known and oved hy Belgium, and M. Zaleski, “Reds.” Told Plan to Exile. Reports from France that Lucetti told an Italian self-exile there that he was certain hix attempt would suceeed, adding, with a_thousht to h own_ probable fate: “Mussolini and are as good as dead now. Among those actually arrested are several Milan Communists, search of whose homes brought important documents to light. These prisoners include Umberto Terracini, head of the Milanese Communists, and Rosso lino Ferragni. The police helieve Milan Subvers. ives were deeply implicated in fthe attempt. since it is known that Lu cetti, on a previous short visit to Italy about four months ago, went from his native village in Tuscany to Milan, where he conferred with other anarchists. The conferences were bhroken up by the police and Lucetti went to Venice. May Revive Death Penalty. The death penalty in Italy ished some 50 years ago. is i be revived in consequence of recur. rent attempts assassinate the premier. Certain Fascist deputies have requested that Parliament be convoked to discuss a measure calling for the re.establishment of capital punishment for certain grave crimes. Mussolini, however, is not fearful that his end will come at the hands of an aseassin. It is his belief that he will die a natural death. His star of destiny protects him from the as in, he savs “You ask me why I do not protect what I call my person from the as sassins,” said the premier to Robert of the treaties, but by firm| H. Davis of the New York Sun, when Mr. Davis interviewed him in on the part of the public| leaders in the different countries to| Chigi Palace. “There is no need. My star protects me, as Italy is protected. have faith in one another. This | trame of mind had replaced the old |l shall die a natural death. As I live now there must he adventure, and I tate of affairs, and was a new spirit | developed under Sir Ansten Chamber.| must be free to come and go among tain’s guidance. the people—always my people.” In conclusion, Dr. Stresemann men. | eemational ami ot whien . AMERICAN DIES OF BURNS IN TRINIDAD OIL BLAZE dence had heen given in the speech w Britain France Germany: Rroucliere, Poland Predicts End of Conflicts. In a statement to the Rritish cor- respondents Dr. Stresemann dwelt in warm terms on the value of the| Tocarno security agreement and all that it meant. “Locarno,” he said. “is the end of the policy of opposition and con- flicting aims. Now that this policy is ceasing and the powers are co- | operating, Locarno is merged into the | League of Nations.” | The primary task of the leaders in all countries, he added. was to find | followers for the Locarno poliey. and | this was perhaps hardest in Germany. | the heginning there were many opponents to the policy. He helieved, however, that it now had an overwhelming majority of the Germans hehind it Dr. Stresemann appreciation of Great notorious expressed great Rritain's for- abol ence to Sir Austen Chamberiain. who. ely to he said, had plaved a great role as foreign secretary’ Cites British Opinion. Public opinion in Great Britain, he | had lately shown a tend- visualize a_Franco-German | coalition. As to the recent iron agreement, he said. this nally intended to include Great | tain, and it was “clearly not directed against any country, least of all, Britain.” | leferring to the mistrust and suspi- cion of the Locarno agreement in the | past, the German statesman said this had been overcome. not by the legal ency to resolve of the French foreign minister bafore the League assembly when Germanv was welcomed into membership. He expressed the hope and helief that a policy of this sort would continue, with beneficial results to all ‘con- cerned. 2/ i EXECUTION POSTPONED WHILE STORY IS PROBED Head Driller One of Two Fatally Injured Following Explosion Near Port of Spain. Br the Associated Press. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Sep. tember 14.— Advices from the oil regions, where fire hroke out while a iy.’e“ gusher was being brought in. sav E that two men. one of them an Ameri Death of Georgia Man Delayed AS|can named Beery, head driller, died | from burns. | Bgery was working on his rig at the {timeé of the explosion. The man next to him was burned to death. Beery rushed through the flames. All his clothes were burned off and his flesh was badly seared. The fire is still burning. Flames are rising 200 feet in the air and the con flagration is visible in Port of Spain. 50 miles away. It is estimated that a thousand harrels of oil are being burned daily co Officials Investigate Girl's Confession. Br the MILLEDGEVILLE. Ga 14.—Gov. Clifford Walke: mitted State prison officials the execution of Mell M p.m.. Eastern standard time, the last legal minute, Supt. B. H. Dun away announced this morning The order was given presumably Ascociated Press September has per to delay Gor until PUT IN OPERATION, BROAD “RED" PLOT the | (0OLIDGE OPPOSES DEMOCRATIC DEBT AND TAX-GUT PLAN Hewing Too Close to Line of Revenue May Force Raise Later, He Fears. |CANCELLATION DECLARED BAR TO SIMMONS’ HOPES President Said to See No Political Significance to Trip Through Wadsworth Territory. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. WHITE PINE CAMP, N. Y., Sep- tember 14.—President Coolidze’s spokesman today answered the Demo. cratic claims for debt cancellation and tax reduction, giving in considerable detail Mr. Coolidge's reasoning in op- posing hoth suggestions. In reference to Senator F. M. Sim. mons' suggestion for a tax reduction of $560,000,000, it is Mr. Coolidge's cpinion, his spokesman asserted, that |any one can reduce taxes if there is an | | Executive who will keep expenses | aown, and his fear is that if Con- gress hews too close to the line in| times of prosperity it may be neces- v, when a business depression comes, to increase taxes. Nothing, the President believes, would ‘be more detrimental to a re covery than an increase of the Fed levy upon individuals and busi . In a word, answering Senator immons, Democratic ranking mem er of the finance committee, Mr. Coolidge believes that the present con dition of the Trwasury does not war- | | vant the reduct. n of more than half a billion doilars which the Senator | proposes shall be made next Winter, | unless it is to be dene at the expense of debt service. If that were done, se- rious complications might result. | | | | Effect of Cancellation. On the other hand, if the views | of the cancellationists were carried | out there could be no tax reduction. | | even at the expense of debt service | So the President feels that before at tempting to impose their views upon | the country the Democrats might do | very well if they first agreed among | themselves what their aims are and how they shculd be carried out. i The President, it was made clear. favors tax reduction just as qu | as it safely can be done. On the other hand, he also favors reducing the na- tional debt, on which the annual in- terest now exceeds $500,000,000, | one method of the wisest and most far-reaching economy. | Part of the additional revenue com- | |ing into the Treasury at present is! | due to tax reform,accompanied by tax | eduction, but it also results from in creased busines The President | doesn’t know how much of the in-| crease is to he attributed to reform | or prosperity, and thinks that it will be well to ‘wait before making a change in the present law until the | statute has been given a longer 1 Until that has been done Mr. Coolidge | | is not ready to reach a final conclu- | sion. | | | Impressed by Borrowing. | | The President has been greatly im. | pressed with the fact that in Septem her the Treasury again had to resort | to temporary borrowing in order to| meet _current fiscal needs. In June, | for the first time in many years,| current income was sufficient to tide | over the Treasury and much was| made of the fact as being indicativ of the condition not only of the Treasury. but of the country. The| country was henefited twofold, hecause funds that had been accumulated to offer the Treasury promptly were diverted to productive channels If the income of the Treasury were | cut to such a point by further tax | | reduction that the Government co ‘st.mll\ would have to borrow money |to meet its obligations, it would he paying inerest on much of the capi tal it needed in its business, accord ing to the President, who dosen't see | | any wisdom in that. On the other | hand, he can't see how the Simmons | plan can be carried out without a re arrangement . of the debt service Without a minute study of the funds | now applied to that purpose Mr. Cool- idge isn't prepared to state what can | or cannot be done. but he does see | | danger ahead if it is necessary to in. | | terfere with the sinking fund sched. | ules which have been set up to re. | | deem bonds being paid off. The Gov | arnment must keep faith with the lend. | | ers of the funds. To do otherwise, the | | spokesman said, would he a gross vio- | | 1ation of faith and injurious to the | | public credit. , | | Expects Faith to Be Kept. | While putting this forward as one ! answer to the Democratic claims, | which now have superseded the tariff | as a main argument for the 1926 cam- | paign. Mr. Coolidge really does not feel | that any one in public life serlously would propose anything of that sort. | Mr. Coolidge also feels that the Gov- ernment has a surplus, whether it be large or small, in theory only, hecause, while income may be greater than out for current expenditures, when debt service {s contemplated the United ates has no margin at all between receipts and its obligations. Mr. Coolidge wants it understood that he not only has been working for tax reduction but for tax reform as well. Under tax reform he looks for a larger revenue, at reduced rates, by reason of the greater busi- | | ness reform rates will produce. It is | too early tor him to say whether the (Continued on Page 4, Column 3, | | | | that officials might further investi gate the statement Sunday by Ruby Ray. convicted girl accomplice, who declared she fired the shot which killed William H. Cheek. Atlanta gro- cer. for complicity in whose slaving Gere was given the death sentence The Ray girl was taken from her | Sevier cell here at 2 a.m. today by deputies of Fulton County and Solicitor Gen eral John A. Boykin, who left with her for Atlanta. By the Associated Pro MANAGUA, Nicaragua, September | 14.—W. J. Crampton, American col- | lector of customs at Bluefield, reports that fighting between revolutionists and_government forces continues at El Bluff. The garrison is said to be holding its own. although it has been subjected to a fierce bombardment for Schurman Leaves Bérlin. SERLIN, Septem! ). —Dr Jacob Gould Schurman. American Am bassador o Germany. with his family, | four days. left for Bremen today to board the| “As T liner George Washington for the |Crampton United States, |with machi left EIl i Bluff,” boat was gun bullets said Mr. spr from {American Official’s Boat Hit by Bullets And Home Is Shelled in Nicaragua! | revolutionary guns on the beach. All the windows in my home are broken. | Many threeinch shells have passed through my house, which is almost a | total wreck.” ! Mr. Crampton's home occupies the | site of an old fort. A dvnamite house | on the wharf has bheen a target for the artillery of the revolutionists. All| |the explosives were removed several |days ago and the bombardment has ved | proved to be only a waste, of ammuni- [ James B | tion. | Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs, | went to he 1926—-FORTY-EIGHT PA(:ES‘ I'M A REPUBLICAN BUT [ SIMPLY TWO CENTS. EVANS CALLS KLAN T0°MILITANT FIGHT FORAMERICANISM' Saving U. S. From “Alien- ism,” Making Protestant- ism Supreme, 2 Goals. (P Means Associated Pres: ! MOVEMENT NO LONGER ON DEFENSIVE, HE SAYS Thousands of New Members Pre- dicted Soon—Warns of “For- eign Entanglements.” Calling for a new policy of “ag gressive, militant Americanism,” Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans, imperial wizard of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, taday outlined a concrete program of “patriotic ad- vancement” for the ensuing two vears, at the second ion of the order's third biennial cenvention being held in the Washington Audi- torium. Three outstanding objectives toward which the Ku Klux Klan must look, now that it has reached an un- NEW HALL-MILLS WITNESSES FOUND Pair Were in Léne Night of | Murders, State Prose- cutor Says. By the Associated Pre: JERSEY CITY, 14.—Corroboration . J., September of three major ate’s witnesses in the Hall-Mills murder cise was expected foday from two new iwitnesses, a man and a woman who kept a rendezvous in Do Russey’s lane near the spot where Elea nor Mills were slain four years ago to- night, Special Prosecutor Simpson an nounced. He said the witnesses would be ques. tioned by his investigators at Somer- ville, A man who was within 350 feet of the scene of the slaying and who as erted that he heard nothing and saw nothing rediscovered today. He is Michael Sulies. known as the “pig stieke Four vears ago tonizht. at the tme of the murders, he was sleep ing in a shack on the Philiips farm wheie the bodies were found. Knives Not Returned. Five of his knives which were taken four vears ago for chemical examina tion were never returned to him, he said. Investigators have sought him for questioning in the present inquiry New=paper men found him living in'a new bhungalow not far from the resi dence of Mrs. Jane Gibson, pig raiser, on whose eye-witness story of the mur ders the State has based its present investigation. Questioned in the first investigation he ‘maintained that he went off duty as caretaker at 9 p.m. on the night of the murder, put his cow in the barn, and heard nothing and saw nothing until morning. Witnesses' Identity Secret. Mrs. Gibson has bee . instrum through her testimony n lodgimg mur harges against Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the rector: Willie Ste- vens, her brother, and Henry ( pender, her cousin. Mrs. Gibson, Ralph Gorsline and Miss Catherine Rastall are the three State witne who said they heard shots and reams near the murder scene. Senator Simpson refused to identify his new witnesses, SACCO’S PLEA HANGS ON MURDERER'S STORY 132-Page Deposition Exonerating Radical and Vanzetti Read at Hearing of Appeal. By the Associated Press. DEDHAM, Mass., September 14— Reading of the deposition of a con- demned murderer upon whose state- ments Nicola Sacco and Bartolome Vanzetti have based a new fight for their lives, was begun today in Su- perior Court. Sacco and Vanzett: were convicted of the murder of a_paymas. ter and his guard at South Braintree in 1920. Counsel for the defense de- clared they were convicted because they were radicais, and not because they were real murderers. Since that time Celestino Madeiros, now awaiting _electrocution for the murder of a bank cashier during a hold-up, has admitted that he was a member of the gang that committed the South Braintree murders, and has exonerated Sacco and Vanzetti. Attor ney Willlam G. Thompson, chief of the defence counsel, today began read- ing thel32 typewritten pages in Madeiros' deposition. CANTON POLICE CHIEF'S REMOVAL IS APPROVED Mayor in Ousting Lengel for Bungling Mellett Probe. By the Associated Press. CANTON, Ohio. September 14—S. A. Lengel has lost his fight before the | proceeding to Ichang to effect the re-| Civil Service Commission for rein- statement as chief of police. The commission today it sustained the action of Mavor S. M. Swarts in removing Lengel office on the grounds that announced from Civilians to Aid In Enforcement of Prohibition Laws By the Acsociated Press. DES MOINES, September 14. Every individuzl interested in en- forcement of iie prohibition lav will be given opportunity to aid Federal agents under a new tem to be ziven a trial in Towa-Nebraska-South Dakota triet. The plan, agreed upon at a con- ference of Glenn A. Brunston, district enforcement director, and the secretaries of the Iowa and Nebraska Anti-Saloon Leagues, provides a means of acquainting agents with community prohibi- tion problems. Under the plan devised here yesterday prohibition agents will hold periodic confer- ences with prohibitionists to learn local conditions. Anti-Saloon League offic and other prohi ) leaders will confer at in- with State prohibition di- sy the dis- | | enforcement will be urged to attend the community and State meet ings. All prohibitionists will be asked to aid the officers either by furnishing tips or advice. | o | | Aviator Il and Place to Be Taken by Lieut. Curtin in Hon to Paris. | | Br the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 14.—By a |last-minute change in the much | shifted personnel of the Fonck trans | atlantic fiight, Lieut. Allan Snedy will nental | not gecompany Capt. Rene Fonck. but | from sight. fell on its side, smashed will be replaced by Lieut. William Curtin, Capt. Fonck announced toda Tliness will prevent the participation of Lieut. Snody, said Capt. Fonck in |in which he announced the names of | the crew who will accompany | They are Lieut. Curtin, navigator and }ano te pilot: A. Islamof, mechanic, | and_Charles Clavier, radio operator. “We may take off tomorrow at 3 o'clock, if weather conditions are | favorable.” said Capt. Fonck. “Other. | wise the next day or the next: only the weather man can say exactly when." | CURTI N ON DUTY HERE. Lieut. Curtin has been granted a | month’s leave of absence to undertake |the flight. He is on duty in the Bu \reau of Aeronautics | known in aviation circles. During the | past vear he acted as aide to the late Comdr. John Rodgers, accompanying him on many flights away from Wash- ington. Lieut. Curtin was a group winner and was awarded one of the The last May gold wrist watches Evening Star. CHINESE END FIRING ON FOREIGN SHIPS | British Admiral Is on Way to Ne- gotiate for Release of Mer- | chant Vessels. offered by By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 14.—Firing upon foreign ships at Hankow has largely ceases according to British | government dispatches from China. { Gen. Yang Sen has offered to send | Civil Service Commission Upholds| o deputation to Ichang, in Hupen | Province, to discuss the Manhsien in | cident, in which several British naval | officers and seamen were killed or | wounded. | Rear Admiral John Ewen Cameron | of the British Far Eastern fleet is lease of the two merchant ships which the: Chinese still hold at Manhsien. Patrol Being Relaxed. HONGKONG, September 14 (#).— he bungled | Information has been received here in directing the police investigation | that the British patrol of Canton har. of the murder of Don R. Mellett, Can ton pul world characters. The commission is composed Allardice, chairman; G Melbourne and David E. of F. Eschliman. | bor is being relaxed gradual The blisher. on July 16. and that he| patrol was established September 4 was too familiar with certain under-| when British naval troops were landed |~ on the west bund. on an area under lease to a British concern, because of hostile demonstrations against British shipping. |a statement to the Associated Press, | him. | here, and wellf |in the Curtiss marine trophy held here | precedented stage of prosperity, Dr. Evans declared, were as follows: 1. To save America from alienism ~to prevent the mongrelization of our race and to promote a steady nationalism rather than permit the strength of America to be dissipated through an insipid cosmopolitanism. For Protestant Supremacy To restore Protestantism to and unquestioned supremacy in the spirftual spotlight of America, and to make spiritual freedom the undoubted possession of every citi- zen of this country. 17 %3 To assist America toward the fulfillment of her God-given destiny by protecting the fundamental policies of Americanism that have made us the most respected nation in the world.” Three primary aims to be worked for by the various Klans, the imperial wizard sald. were: “To exemplify the principles of the Klan by increasing our knowledge and practice of klanish- ness: to bring the full power of the Klan to bear on American life by put- ting every klansman to work for America, each in his own sphere, and to enlist every true American under the banner of the Klan, thus unifying the forces of America for militant service in selzing our destiny.” Outlines Future Task. “This,” declared Dr. Evans, amid plaudits from the hundreds of dele- gates, “is our future task. It is a road that reaches to the stars. To carry on this program we must fight on many fronts, we must combat evils in many forms, we must labor for right along many lines.” Dr. Evans pointed out that the or- der in the past has been on the de- fensive, but that from now on, he said, {it must take the offensive. An ag- | gressive Americanization program, he stated, will bring into the Klan fold thousands of the best men and women |in_America. All America,” he continued, “has been groping for a way to regain its mental and spiritual poise, to restore and harmonize the national mind, and to resume the march toward what we all know to be the future destiny of America. “We will remove from public opinion through aggressive action and definite programs the oft-repeated charge that we are merely ‘antis.’ It has been easy to mislead many about the K because, since we have been on the defensive, we have spoken much and have seemed to be against the Jews, the Catholics and the aliens. Upholds Klan Objectives. Now that we are to fight for Americanism—for true Americanism —Klansmen and non-Klansmen will know that our so-called prejudices and intolerances ame not only justified, but righteous; that they spring from the deepest racial instincts, from i righteous and patriotic convictions {and from sound judgment, for if the | things against which we fight are al- | lowed to take deep root here, Amer- ica could not fulfill her destiny.” Discussing America’s foreign rela tionships, the head of the Klan warned against ‘“foreign entangle- ments,” mentloning in this connection | the Permanent Court of International Justice. A policy of isolation and ct neutrality was advocated. The right of religious freedom fis inherent in America, it was explained but the Klan was urged “to remake and hold 3 sturdy Protestantism.” Free Schools Demanded. The free school system “must ever continue to be in America the great fountain of truth and intelligence,” | the convention was told. The Klan i “will militantly fight until our efforts | find fruition in a successful system of | co-operation between the National | Government, the government of | States, the community and the par- | ents,”" Dr. Evans asserted. | station yesterday afternoon for fur.| Declaring that the growth of crime | ther trials. He had made severaj:in America in the past decade has trips up and down a speed course, lajq | been due to “destruction of spiritual out along the river, and after passing | values incident to the great war.” and north on Bolling Field, he went into | . {rom the invasion of countless a climbing turn from about 500 feet, | hordes of doubtless aliens,” the Klan flew around the smoke tacks at the | Wizard predicted passage of a broad navy vard, and ended up at an alej. ialien registration ‘act. together with tude of about 1500 feet. {laws deporting all criminal aliens. Then he flaw back toward the sta.| The Klansmen were charged “to on over the river with throttled en.|Create a public mind" whereby legisla gine, turned at Hains' Point and went | tion will be created abolishing “the up the river toward Highway Bridge. | €laims of the Catholic Church regard He saw two Army pursuit planes |ing marriaze out of the church, in- yming in from the West and started | volving human happiness and honor | climbing 500 feet higher, turning:and producing discord, civil war and slowly at the same time. To those on certain le untold thousands of i the ground it looked as though he é wanted to get behind them and than pull up alonzside. He completed F turn and he foliowed in their wake at a slow speed and in level flizht the nose suddenly plunged downward ver tically, Ajrmen on the ground knew that Norton had but a few seconds to live At lizhtning speed the plane headed | for the earth, then fell into a half out- cide loop while the plucky airman worked frantically with t ailerons | to roll it with the hope of breaking | the speed. getting it out of the dive | and, perhaps, luckily crashing with | serious injuries at the most. CAUSE OF PLANE RASH IS STUDIED Collapse of Stabilizer Be-| lieved to Have Brought Fall Killing Norton. ful A board of investigation is sitting at the Naval Alr Station, Anacostia, today, inquiring into the tragic death | vesterday afternoon of Lieut. Harmon J. Norton, Marine Corps. whose Navy Curtiss racer, in which he was prac- ticing for the Schneider seaplane trophy race at Norfolk next month, plunged into the mud flats off Hains Point from an altitude of 2,000 feet. The hoard is composed of Lieut. Comdr. D. C. Watson, executive of- ficer; Lieut. W. G. Tomlinson, a | test pilot, and Lieut. C. D. Palmer, radio officer; all of the base. Their findings will be transmitted to_the commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, who in turn will forward them to the judge advocate general of the Navy. Tn the absence of publication of the the opinion prevails that the | horizontal stabilizer collapsed. was torn out of place or that the tail | Aipper wires carried away. This lat- theory is scouted, however, as ones were installed recently.” At rate it undoubtedly appears that some vital member in the tail group failed through no fault of the pilot leaving him helpless. Worked to Save Plane. But the officer, plunging earthward |at a speed of about 300 miles an hour, |did not give up in the struggle with death. Witnesses declare that . with his tail controls useless, he did not become panic stricken and abandon | hope, but worked frantically with his |ailerons, or movable sections on the wings, to roll the plane out of the dive that struck terror to the hearts {of observers. And this he succeeded |in doing to a certain extent. The | plane. instead of plunging into the mud flats nose first and disappearing 1 | findinzs, new |to splinters and crushed the body of its pilot, bringing instant death. First reports declared Lieut. Norton “lost control” of the plane and this statement drew instant disclaimers from his hereaved comrades of the air. *The plane that Norton could not handle has not vet been built," they | declared, adding that “structural fail | ure and not tricky characteristics | the only thing that could whip him.” | Althoush the plane was pronounc ed sound by the naval aircraft fac tory at Philadelphia, where it had heen in storage for the past year, and was declared to be airworthy when turned over to Lieut. Genrge T. Cuddihy. who flew it to Washington about three weeks ago in 32 minutes there are many persons in Washing ton with wide aeronautical experience who held the view that the ship never should have heen flown because of it age. Two sterling airmen have lost their lives in racing planes in the past | three years and this school of thought | has steadfastly held that these tiny sensitive craft should not be shot through the air at tremendous speed. which produce stress and strain on the vital members that are almost unbe lievable in their weight and force. Plane Suddenly Plunged. Lieut. Norton, who had made a prac tice jump last week, went to the air | Live: The Klan's sincere pledzed to the cause b the imperial head, that the Constitution safe from ‘“nullifiers.” Outlining the Klan's interest in public affairs, the wizard said the order must take “a personal inferest in the selection of good officials and | make a personal effort for their elec- tion and bring personal pressure to ! make sure that they perform all their | duties well.” Dr. Evans’ lengthy address was in the nature of an official pronounce- u ment of his program should he be re- Lieut. Norton could not carry a|elected imperial wizard for the next parachute because of the construction | four years. He announced that the of the plane. The opening into the|grand dragons met in Chicago last cockpit s so small that pilots are|July and asked him to assume that PR ~—loffice and that he had delayed ac- | ceptance until the wishes of this con- vention could be ascertained. It was regarded as certain that (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) A support was of prohibition who declared must be kept | ' ' (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Radio Programs—Page 34. q‘